35 Responses

Rony Sheer

Starting with the basics would be great… beginner’s class. Also could you please address the issue of house breaking. There are so many myths about﻿ it that are punishment based. There has got﻿ to be a positive way to do it

Sheilagh McKenna

Nick Nack

Not necessarily, that’s just distracting them with something else. It’s more about you cant have that right now, or until I say. With my dog, leave it﻿ was the first thing I taught him with his food bowl. That way I can add some bits of meat, or an egg and he knows that he cant get it till I say. Not only that, the longer he waits the better his food gets ;)

Nick Nack

Ah nice, thanks too NebulaeCat for bringing that up. I was actually considering teaching some commands in another language so he couldn’t respond except to body language. I scrapped that idea cuz it might make a bit of a barrier﻿ later on when he does understand what I’m saying.

Hilary Barnes

BeyondAlpha

I somewhat agree with @NebulaeCat, except backwards. When you start out, the people who are helping need to be very low distraction, like not even moving or making noise. Gradually increase the distraction so someone makes kissy sounds every now and then, and keep upping the﻿ ante as your dog gets better. Michael Ellis has some great videos on doing this with sport dogs you might put his name in the search bar.

PawsitivePooches

I love watching your videos! The only question/concern I have is with leave-it. Now this is advanced (so maybe this isn’t how you teach basic leave-it?) but I think that allowing the dog to have the item they have been asked to leave alone is counter productive. In real world settings you very rarely would be okay with allowing her to have the item. I﻿ always reward leave-it with a different, higher value item.

Ray LePine

Sarah Anderson

Jessica Feldman

As always this video is so helpful! I travel with berlin and take her around with me. Everyone asks me if I trained her and how she is so well behaved.. I say Z.A.K zak george on youtube its free and he is awesome! lol!﻿ I owe all these compliments to you!

Christina-Maria Dykstra

TheSungecko420

NebulaeCat

A very interesting concept to teach a dog. Got me thinking for a while and though I’m﻿ sure you wanted Zack to answer, here is my idea. First teach your dog to focus strongly on you. It will help him/her understand the concept that you are the only person she should respond to. Then have another person distract your dog with a tons of words that can also be commands like “sitsitsitstaydownsit” then “sit sit sit down stay” and eventualy “sit – pause – stay”etc.Keep rewarding your dog for ignoring.

E LoIch

Nick Nack

Since you mentioned everyone you want the dog to listen must work with them, I have a question heading in the opposite direction. I don’t want my dog to listen to any1 else – maybe unless I give permission, but I donno how feasible that is – I don’t want my dog to come when called by random people in the park or sit and﻿ stay just because they have a treat. Any suggestions?

GoldenWolf248

Alex King

Jude LeMoine

Advanced please. Another clear training video. Anyone wanting to to train﻿ their dog to do this could watch the video 2 or 3 times then start and pause the video as they work with their dog. I LOVE Zak George! Changing the face of dog training one video at at time!